culinary (kuʻlinari)

[= F. culinaire = Sp. Pg. culinario, L. culinarius, 1391 to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens or in cooking: as, a culinary ve el; culinary herbs. She was culi t, n. cull i (kul), v. t. [ coillir (> E. coill), cull, col- lect, colligere , collect, pp. collect us , > E. col- lect : see collect , and coill , which is a doublet of cull1.] 1. To gather; pick; collect. And much of wild and wonderful, In these rude isles, might Fancy cull . No cup had we: In mine own lady palms I cull'd the spring That gather'd trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 2. To pick out; select or separate one or more of from others: often with out . Come knights from east to west, And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best. Shak., T. and C., ii. 3. Go to my wardrobe, And of the richest things I wear cull out What thou think'st fit. Fletcher, Double Marriage, iii. 1. Steel, through opposing plates, the magnet draws, And steely atoms culls from dust and straws. ada.] Crabbe , Parish Register. IMG:content-1781.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To inspect and measure, as timber. [Canculll (kul), n. [